Electronic Presentation Guide

2006 VLSI Test Symposium

10/1/2006 v4

Outline

• VTS presentations are unlike other

conference presentations

• Presentation Guidelines

• Specs for electronic slides

• Schedule and file naming convention

• Good and bad examples

VTS Presentations

• Presentations are limited to 15 mins

• Focus on pertinent information

• DO NOT attempt to fit entire paper onto slides

• List only the key innovations and novel

approaches on slides

• Get straight to the point, audience comprises of

technical experts

• Details of proofs, previous works, and theories

are redundant

Standards and Guidelines

• Standard: mandatory requirements for VTS

presentations– Presentations will be dropped for failure to

follow

• Guideline: suggested good practices– Result in good visuals– It’s your choice: Deviate at your own risk– Guidelines in ordinary yellow text

Projection Computer

• Pentium 4 PC

• 512 Mbytes CPU memory

• Microsoft Windows XP

• PowerPoint 2000

• VTS supplies projection computer

• VTS preloads all presentations

• No changes at the conference

Style Guidelines

• 15 slides, including title slide

• 9 lines max on a text slide

• 7 words max per line

• High contrast: Light lettering/lines on a

dark background

• Company (university) logo on title slide only

• Show only what you will talk about

Style Guidelines (cont)

• Short phrases, not long sentences

• Use Arial, or similar sans serif font– This line uses the Helvetica font– The rest of the document uses Arial

• 36 Point Titles• 28 point text

• Use graphs instead of tables

Contrast

• High contrast very important

• Has to be visible from back of large room

• Use light lines/text on a dark background– Foreground: White, yellow, light cyan– Background: Black, dark blue, brown, dark

green– Caution: Red, orange or blue lettering and

lines become unreadable when projected

Display Speed

• Slides should display instantly

• Do not distract the audience with slow

transition effects

• Avoid overuse of slow graphics, fonts and

special effects

About your presentation

• Presentation timing:– 15 minutes for actual presentation– 3 minutes for Q & A– 2 minutes to switch presentations

• Hard deadline of April 7 to submit file

– Provides time to get presentation into database

Schedule (New With Instruction)

• April 7: Final presentation submission deadline

– Upload your presentation at http://www.tttc-vts.org– Click on Authors/Reviewer and then on Login

– Use the same username and password used for the submission

– Click on view my papers– For each paper you submitted you will see:

Click here to submit your presentation

Click Here to submit the presenter’s biography Click Here change the

presenter’s name

A Bad Example

• This slide has no title. Titles help guide the audience through the talk. All slides except photographs should have a title.

• The type on this slide is too small. It’s readable here, but when projected, only the presenter and maybe those in the front rows will be able to read it. Those in the back will be completely lost.

• USE OF ALL CAPITAL LETTERS OR ITALICS also makes slides difficult to read. Use dark backgrounds; not light!

• This slide would be easier to follow if indentations were used.

• Don’t design your VTS slides to be stand alone. They are a guide to your presentation. If they were understandable by themselves, we could just publish them and forget about presentations! Your slides support what you say: They don’t replace it.

• This slide has too many words and too many points. Keep your slides under nine lines.

Thank You and Good Luck!